Day 86: God’s Plan of Salvation

The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 27 March 2023

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Summary

How can we have free will if the Scriptures foretell God’s plan of salvation? This is a great mystery and something we might struggle to understand. Fr. Mike explains what it means to say God’s plan of predestination includes God’s permissive will, each person’s free will, and human beings’ response to the Father’s grace. Today’s reading is Catechism paragraphs 599-605.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to The Catechism in a Year Podcast,
0:09.4	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down
0:13.4	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:17.4	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity
0:22.2	in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day 86, where it
0:26.1	includes the foundations of faith approach. You can follow along with any recent versions of the
0:34.4	Catechism of the Catholic Church. It's all the same. To download your own Catechism and your
0:38.6	reading plan, you can visit AscensionPress.com slash C-I-Y. Lastly, you can click follow or subscribe
0:44.4	on your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications this day is day 86. As I said,
0:48.7	yesterday, golly, yesterday we talked about what is it that we believe about the role of the Jews
0:55.0	when it came to Jesus' condemnation and his crucifixion and the Church is emphatic in saying that
1:01.2	we do not lay the guilt of our Lord's death at the feet of the Jews. We do not place blame,
1:07.4	we take the blame, right? Essentially, that all sinners were the authors of price-passion,
1:11.7	and that includes ourselves. Yesterday, also, we had that convicting word of Saint Francis of
1:16.9	Assisi that was the last word we talked about, where he said, nor did demons crucify him, it is you
1:22.2	who have crucified him and crucify him still when you delight in your vices and sins. So that
1:27.0	that powerful word, now here's the next move. The next move is Christ's redemptive death in God's
1:33.6	plan of salvation. So what happens? Basically, we recognize that Christ died for our sins as
1:39.4	is something we say a lot, right? But what's going on here? First of all, we're going to talk about
1:45.3	the fact that Jesus' violent death was not the result of chance in an unfortunate quid sentence or
1:50.9	circumstances, but it's part of the mystery of God's plan. So it's part of the mystery of God's
1:55.3	plan that Christ would suffer a death that he'd undergo his passion in rise from the dead.
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